All Elite Wrestling and Amazon’s Prime Video immediately introduced a multi-year deal that can see the streaming service carry AEW’s pay-per-view occasions within the US, Canada, and the UK. Their partnership will begin this coming weekend with AEW Revolution, which airs Sunday night time.
Unlike Thursday Night Football and different sports activities content material that comes included with a Prime subscription, you’ll nonetheless very a lot should pay for every particular person AEW occasion. (Revolution prices $49.99, when you had been questioning.) This merely simply provides followers one other avenue for the place to look at.
AEW has up to now kept away from permitting any streamer to supply its reside, marquee occasions as a part of a base month-to-month subscription. That differs considerably from WWE’s technique, the place as long as you’ve bought any tier of Peacock, you possibly can watch premium reside occasions like WrestleMania as they occur at no additional value. WWE additionally introduced its flagship weekly program, Raw, to Netflix in January with a lot fanfare after the present spent many years as a staple of cable TV.
By distinction, AEW has streamed its pay-per-views via a hodgepodge of companies together with Bleacher Report, TrillerTV, YouTube, and now Prime Video along with conventional cable and satellite tv for pc suppliers. Having all of them on Max after the very fact is handy, however if you wish to catch AEW’s largest exhibits reside, you’ve nonetheless bought to pay for every one — a minimum of for now.
